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In the semiconductor industry:
a special form of IP-Core.
From Wikipedia:
Not to be confused with soft computing.
A soft microprocessor (also called softcore microprocessor or a soft processor) is a microprocessor core that can be wholly implemented using logic synthesis. It can be implemented via different semiconductor devices containing programmable logic (e.g., ASIC, FPGA, CPLD).
Most systems, if they use a soft processor at all, only use a single soft processor. However, a few designers tile as many soft cores onto an FPGA as will fit[1]. In those multi-core systems, rarely-used resources can be shared between all the cores in a cluster, leading to Jan's Razor.
Jan's Razor: In a chip multiprocessor design, strive to leave out all but the minimal kernel set of features from each processing element, so as to maximize processing elements per die.[2]
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